Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to h...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. Bu...

Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoi...

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
A couple of boy gangs in Budapest constantly fight over the neighborhood turf.

In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war ...

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she ta...

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...